Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights (Law in Context)

by: Michael B. Likosky (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (30 Oct. 2006)

Language: English

Print length: 240 pages

ISBN-10: 052185962X

ISBN-13: 9780521859622

Book Description

From attacks on oil infrastructure in post-war reconstruction Iraq to the laying of gas pipelines in the Amazon Rainforest through indigenous community villages, infrastructure projects are sites of intense human rights struggles. Many state and non-state actors have proposed solutions for handling human rights problems in the context of specific infrastructure projects. Solutions have been admired for being lofty in principle; however, they have been judged wanting in practice. This book analyzes how human rights are handled in varied contexts and then assesses the feasibility of a common inteational institutional solution under the auspices of the United Nations to the alleged problem of the inability to translate human rights into practice.